North Elba Park District Manager Butch Martin announced Wednesday, March 15, that the Lake Placid Toboggan Chute is now closed for the season. “With the heavy snow we received and the predicted temperatures in the 30s and 40s at the end of the week, it would be a losing battle to keep it running,” he wrote in an email. “This heavy snow has created slush and more water on the ice.” (News photo — Lauren Yates)